Paintings and painting Books
Trolley Books The Natural History of Vedovamazzei
Book SynopsisVedovamazzei is the working name of Italian artists Stella Scala and Simeone Crispino. Classification and qualification seem almost to be the enemy of artistic endeavour. Yet this elliptical collation of the artists' ideas and hopes offers an insight into Vedovamazzei's creative process.
£22.49
D Giles Ltd Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and
Book Synopsis'Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese: The Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art' features works by some of the greatest names in Venetian painting including Veronese, Tintoretto, Crivelli, Giambono and the Bassano family. It creates a new and illuminating context for the artistic scene in Venice, examining the rich visual tradition of Christ as the Man of Sorrows which flourished over three centuries across all artistic media, outstripping other western European schools in terms of output and the number of artists committed to the subject. Authors Catherine Puglisi and William Barcham explore the origins of the image of Christ as Man of Sorrows and its emergence as a distinct and central devotional image in the religious life of Venice from about 1300. Xavier Seubert focuses on the appeal of the Man of Sorrows as an image expressing pity and anguish, but also offering hope for deliverance and redemption.Table of ContentsAccompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Museum of Biblical Art, New York, from February 15th, 2011 - June 12th, 2011.
£25.50
D Giles Ltd Masters of French Painting 1290-1920
Book Synopsis'Masters of French Painting, 1290-1920' presents 138 of the most significant and representative works of art in the Wadsworth Atheneum's internationally recognised collection of French paintings and pastels, ranging from religious subjects, such as Nicolas Poussin's magnificent 'The Crucifixion' (1644-6) and Noel Halle's tender and human 'Holy Family' (1753) to Toulouse- Lautrec's 'Jane Avril Leaving the Moulin Rouge' (1892). As the first public art museum in the US, the Wadsworth Atheneum paved the way for encyclopaedic museums across the country. Founded by Daniel Wadsworth, the Atheneum opened in 1844 with 79 paintings and three sculptures, and today holds more than 50,000 works of art. 'Masters of French Painting, 1290-1920' provides scholars and researchers with an up-to-date resource on French art, and art-lovers with a beautifully illustrated guide to this remarkable collection.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction List of Artists in the Catalogue Catalogue Glossary Selected References Photographic Credits Index
£36.00
Ridinghouse Bridget Riley: Eight Studies 1969-1972
Book SynopsisThis volume documents a group of gouache studies by Bridget Riley from 1969 to 1972 that reflects a major reconfiguration of Riley's style. The shapes formed in these gouaches are arranged from a limited selection of colours namely violet, green and pink to explore the visual relationship between ''contrast and harmony'.Accompanying full colour illustrations, a conversation between the artist and Robert Kudielka from 1972 posits the works within the context of Bridget Riley's oeuvre.
£15.00
Unicorn Publishing Group THE PAINTER RAS A Guide to the Painter Members of
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£9.74
White Crow Productions Conversations with Van Gogh: In His Own Words
£18.04
D Giles Ltd British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum
Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated volume showcases over 70 exquisite pieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art's internationally important collection of British portrait miniatures which range in date from the 17th to the 19th century. It features the work of leading miniaturists, including Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver, Samuel Cooper, as well as an extensive collection of miniatures by Richard Cosway, much of it shown here for the first time. Author Cory Korkow includes new research about the artists, sitters and owners of these precious miniatures. Each is accompanied by a detailed catalogue entry including notes on both the work and biographical information on the artist, as well as a dramatic full-page colour plate. Supplementary illustrations show the front and back of the miniatures to scale, which, along with numerous conservation photographs, index of artists allows this stunning collection to be studied in detail for the first time. The volume also includes an index of artists.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Essay; Main catalogue: entries for up to 73 objects plus up to 262 comparative images - including a front and back to scale shot of each object; Documentation; Further reading; Index of artists.
£32.00
D Giles Ltd Illuminations
Book SynopsisItalian Baroque painting is often discussed in terms of theatre and the creation of powerful visual spectacle through the dramatic use of light. Seventeenth-century painters pushed the limits of artistic expression to reshape the relationship between the illusionistic image and its audience with contrasting styles, new techniques, and by deploying extraordinary optical effects. Featuring some of Canada's foremost Baroque paintings, "Illuminations" examines how the functional and symbolic representation of light was the expression of a culture captivated by theatrical display. Set in the context of Italy's dynamic and international cultural capitals, "Illuminations" compares and contrasts religious, mythological, and popular imagery. Through a detailed examination of works by Nicolas Poussain, Luca Giordano, Orazio Gentileschi and Guido Reni amongst others, the book explores how 17th-century audiences were confronted with pictures that frequently broke conventions by manipulating the sources and meaning of light, while depicting all types of subjects; painters were able to transform light, controlling its role as a signifier of demeanour, emotion, or religious symbolism. The use of light coloured the historical legends and social mythologies of this extravagant world.
£12.30
D Giles Ltd Gauguin to Picasso: Masterworks from Switzerland
Book SynopsisGauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Monet, Chagall, Picasso-some of the finest works by the greatest artists of the 20th century were collected by two Swiss art patrons, Rudolf Staechelin (18811946) and Karl Im Obersteg (18491926). They were successful businessmen, and friends, and inspired by the art of their times, actively purchased works by modernist artists. Published on the occasion of a major international exhibition, 'Gauguin to Picasso: Masterworks from Switzerland' features over 60 celebrated paintings from their collections by 22 world-famous artists. Masterpieces include Paul Gauguin's Nafea faa ipoipo (When will you Marry?) (1892), which was recently sold for US$300 million- the highest price ever paid for an artwork-Vincent van Gogh's Daubigny's Garden (1890), Picasso's double-sided canvas Femme dans la loge / Buveuse d'absinthe (1901) and Marc Chagall's three monumental Rabbi portraits. Other extraordinary paintings by artists of international stature include Swiss masters Ferdinand Hodler and Cunio Amiet, Russian expressionist painter Alexej Jawlensky, and works by Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Rouault and Wassily Kandinsky. AUTHOR: Dorothy Kosinski is the director of The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Hans-Joachim Muller is an art critic at the German paper Die Zeit and the culture editor at Basler Zeitung 174 colour illustrations
£29.71
Sansom & Co Tessa Newcomb's Paris: Paintings and Text
Book SynopsisCapturing the enchantment of Paris in words and paintings.
£9.71
Glasgow Museums Publishing The Burrells' Legacy: A Great Gift to Glasgow
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£9.36
Eyewear Publishing Donald Langosy: Poet's Painter
Book SynopsisPoetry. Art. In this beautifully produced full-color art volume, poet Eric Sigler responds to 99 paintings by the legendary painter Donald Langosy. Donald Langosy and Eric Sigler. 99 poems by Eric Sigler illustrating 99 paintings. In this unique collaboration, painter Donald Langosy and poet Eric Sigler draw on a long friendship to create a fantastical world realised in images and words. Langosy''s vivid colours, dramatic uses of light and wide cast of characters combine to create artworks of great energy and interest, while Sigler layers the paintings with glimpses into an internal element, bringing them truly to life. Drawing on mythological elements, moments from history and religion, this is a multimedia work that delights all the senses.
£21.24
Ridinghouse About Bridget Riley: Selected Writings 1999-2016
Book SynopsisAbout Bridget Riley represents a monumental body of research and analysis by some of the most important art historians. It also offers the opportunity for the reader and the viewer to approach Riley from a plethora of perspectives to form their own view.
£18.75
Royal Academy of Arts Mick Moon
Book SynopsisThe first monograph on this important but overlooked artist. Coincides with a major show of new work at Alan Cristea Gallery, London, 27 June to 31 July, 2019. Mick Moon RA was born in Edinburgh in 1937 and grew up in Blackpool. He studied at the Chelsea School of Art (1958-62) and later taught at the Slade School of Fine Art (1973-90). He was elected a Royal Academician in 1994 and his work now forms part of many public collections including those of the Scottish National Gallery, Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Moon's paintings and prints combine a wide variety of media and techniques in complex and intriguing layers. More recently, photographic elements have formed part of his practice, along with textural materials such as wood and cloth which Moon combines with ink and paint. The art historian Mel Gooding provides an authoritative insight into Mick Moon's practice and a definitive overview of his career. He argues that Moon is one of the most important artists of his generation and asserts his place as one of the key figures of post-war British art.
£22.50
Enitharmon Press Pictures from an Exhibition
Book Synopsis"There were no pictures on the walls of the rented rooms my mother and I lived in when I was a child. But there were pictures on the school walls, details of exhibitions and the lives of great painters in Everybody's Weekly, and, when we could afford it, we would treat ourselves to a trip to the nearest city and its travelling exhibitions of prints, which was how I saw most of Van Gogh that wasn't at school."For Duffy, pictures were and still are magical creations and recreations of the visible world - of history, mythologies, landscape, love and death - where the artists who make them attempt risk-taking feats analogous to a poet's with words. Pictures abound in this collection, ushering the reader from canvas to screen via x-rays and iPhone snapshots, the latter inspiring the closing sequence 'Burdsong'. Above all, Pictures from an Exhibition celebrates the mind's eye, which is its own exhibition gallery: transforming Darlington Station into an upturned ship's hull or a mauled pigeon into a still life, and glorying in the lives, loves and creations of painters from Veronese to Anselm Kiefer.Trade Review'Maureen Duffy deserves serious acclaim as a poet, as much as a novelist' Sunday Times; 'she presses on like a medieval troubadour across barriers of genre, gender, space and time.' TLS
£9.99
D Giles Ltd Artist in Exile: The Visual Diary of Baroness
Book SynopsisA major new illustrated volume on the visual diary of extraordinary artist and traveller Henriette, Baroness Hyde de Neuville, who lived and worked in America during the early nineteenth century. Artist in Exile is the first in-depth, illustrated exploration of the life and work of Anne Marguerite Josephine Henriette Rouillé de Marigny, Baroness Hyde de Neuville (17711849), who arrived in America in 1807 as a refugee from Napoleonic France and embarked on an extraordinary journey of discovery. Her unparalleled, beguiling, watercolours and drawings - over 200, made while travelling through seven countries and on the high seas, published here together with previously unpublished documents and letters - provide an invaluable historical visual record of the early years of the American Republic and its racially diverse population. From this exciting material Henriette emerges as a cosmopolitan artist who exerted her influence in political and social circles on both sides of the Atlantic, courageously traversing the European continent, unescorted, to beg Napoleon to spare her husband's life. Neuville's status as a woman, and an outsider, made her a particularly keen and sympathetic observer of individuals from a range of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. She drew the earliest ethnographically correct images of indigenous Americans, together with vistas predating the works of other traveler-artists, and long-vanished buildings. Although she arrived in America as an outcast, by the end of her second residency, as the celebrated wife of the French Minister Plenipotentiary, she was interacting with political leaders and making her mark on society in Washington, DC and New York City. Artist in Exile tells her compelling story. AUTHOR: Roberta J.M. Olson, who received her Ph.D. in Art History from Princeton University, is Professor Emerita of Art History at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, and Curator of Drawings at the New-York Historical Society, where she has worked since 2000. 276 colour illustrations
£32.00
D Giles Ltd Vermeer's Mistress and Maid
Book SynopsisThe subject of writing and receiving letters, which recurs frequently in the work of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), is given dramatic tension in this masterful painting of two women in a mysterious moment of crisis. The artist seldom, if ever, surpassed the subtly varied effects of light seen here as it gleams from the pearl jewellery, sparkles from the glass and silver objects on the table, and falls softly over the figures in their shadowy setting. The Frick Diptych series sparks a dialogue between creative spirits and art historians, promising new insights into some of the Frick's most famous masterpieces. The third volume, to be published in 2019, will have a contribution by author Edmund de Waal on a pair of porcelain and bronze candlesticks by the 18th-century French metalworker Pierre Gouthiere.Table of ContentsDirector's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Two Letters on a Day in the Early 1660s by James Ivory; Vermeer's Mistress and Maid by Margaret Iacono; Bibliography; Index
£17.95
HENI Publishing Matter of Life
Book SynopsisAn epistolary collection of paintings by French painter and philosopher Eugenie Paultre, Matter of Life is a diaristic account of the artist's six-month residency at Damien Hirst's workshop where she discovered and documented new possibilities in her painting, as well as a more profound connection to the work of her host.
£16.96
HENI Publishing The Romance of Bricks
Book SynopsisOriginally a film by British avant-garde filmmaker Nichola Bruce, The Romance of Bricks is a portrait of the artist Liz Finch: a British painter, performer and poet. From her life-changing accident and rural solitude to the mad social whirl of 80s London anarchic performances and up to the present day, The Romance of Bricks sews together archival film over many years to produce an intriguing glimpse into the private world of the artist. Featuring commentary from Jools Holland, Christine Binnie, Jennifer Binnie, John Finch, Brian Clarke, Aubrey Fabing, Richard Strange, Nicola Bateman Bowery, Francesco Brusatin and Martin Harrison alongside an intimate dialogue with the artist herself.
£30.00
Luath Press Ltd Facing the Nation: The portraiture of Alexander
Book SynopsisIllustrated with 167 full colour images, this landmark book charts Alexander Moffat’s career from student days at Edinburgh College of Art in the 1960s to the recent Scotland’s Voices. Iconic portraits of major figures in literature and the other arts are represented. The cultural significance of the visual chronicle Moffat has created lies in his approach to portraiture. He aims not only to capture a sitter’s appearance but also to convey something of their inner character, reaching ‘a balance between emotional expression and compositional order’.Trade Review'illuminating, lavishly illustrated and long overdue retrospective of Moffat's work' -- ALAN TAYLORTable of ContentsForeword by Duncan Thomson 7 PERSONAL, PARTICULAR, PUBLICThe Portraits of Alexander Moffat 11 A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A PORTRAITIST Bill Hare in Conversation with Alexander Moffat 89 Alexander Moffat Chronology 175 List of Images 183 Acknowledgements 191
£21.25
Temple Lodge Publishing New Life – Mother and Child: The Mystery of the
Book SynopsisRudolf Steiner’s intuitive artistic knowledge enabled him to use colours in a unique way, giving expression to their individual natures. Together with his many lectures on art, Steiner’s paintings provide artists with fresh ways of understanding colour, allowing for an entirely new creativity and aesthetics. In 1924, Steiner painted a watercolour of the Madonna and Child, giving it the title `New Life’. Through Steiner’s depiction of Mary, mother of the Divine Child, this painting draws us to the feminine expression of spirituality. In this highly-illustrated, full-colour book Angela Lord studies this feminine principle, beginning with the very earliest stages of human evolution – the `Fall’ from paradise and the pre-historic periods of Lemuria and Atlantis. From the Mysteries of Egypt and Greece to the development of Christian art, she offers insights to the myths and legends of female deities and goddesses. According to Rudolf Steiner, at the time of Jesus’s birth humanity had entered a decadent phase of development. Small groups of initiated individuals, however, were preparing for a sacred birth: the descent of a heavenly being into earthly existence. The God of the Old Testament would be revealed `in flesh’, born to a virgin mother. In the second part of New Life – Mother and Child, Angela Lord takes us on a journey through two thousand years of Christian art, covering Iconography, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. We see how artistic images of Mary and her Child have changed, why these variations have occurred and how they reflect the changing consciousness of humanity. Finally, the `New Life’ painting is considered from the interactive processes of colour and composition, illustrated with a series of artistic colour sequences.Table of ContentsForeword – PART ONE – Chapter One: Origins of Humanity – the Esoteric Aspects of Evolution – Chapter Two: The Fall From Paradise and the Genealogy of Jesus – PART TWO – Chapter One: In Ancient Times – Lemuria and Atlantis – Chapter Two: The Many Goddesses – Chapter Three: The Goddess Made Visible – Chapter Four: The Myths and Legends – PART THREE – Chapter One: The Mysteries of Egypt – Isis and Osiris – Chapter Two: The Mysteries of Greece – Artemis – Chapter Three: A New Consciousness – Demeter and Persephone – PART FOUR – Chapter One: Early Christianity and the Arts – Chapter Two: The Icons – PART FIVE – Chapter One: The Middle Ages – Coming Down to Earth – Chapter Two: Development and Diversity – Chapter Three: The Renaissance – I, The Southern Stream – Chapter Four: The Renaissance – II, The Northern Stream – PART SIX – Chapter One: Crisis and Turning Points – Transition and a New Freedom – PART SEVEN – The Calendar of the Soul – PART EIGHT – The Divine Children – PART NINE – Chapter One: Observing the Painting and the Individual Colours – Chapter Two: Incarnat and the Rainbow – PART TEN – Approaches to Painting the Motif – The Colour Sequences and Gestures – Notes – Bibliography
£21.38
D Giles Ltd Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters
Book SynopsisLiving Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters is an exciting volume featuring the work of four New York based artists, each presenting a single new work in conversation with celebrated paintings in The Frick Collection, with particular emphasis on issues of gender and queer identity typically excluded from narratives of early modern European art. The idea of commissioning four works to display at Frick Madison emerged when four masterpieces by Vermeer, Holbein, and Rembrandt were loaned to exhibitions. Works by Jenna Gribbon, Doron Langberg, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Salman Toor were commissioned to replace them, alongside other works by these artists. This book is the result of the four New York artists' responses to the Frick's collection, and the conversations their work engendered. Written contributions are provided by Jonathan Anderson, Jessica Bell Brown, Christopher Lew, Jason Reynolds, Legacy Russell, and Russell Tovey. SELLING POINTS: . Queer art for the Old Masters . Ties in with a series of ongoing installations of works by contemporary LGBTQ+ artists produced in response to selected works at the Frick . Contributions by artists, writers and curators bring a diverse and rich perspective . Featured artists Jenna Gribbon, Doron Langberg, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Salman Toor allow us to see long-familiar works in the Frick's collection in new ways . Doron Langberg's Lover is paired with Hans Holbein's Sir Thomas More;; Jenna Gribbon's What Am I Doing Here? I Should Ask You the Same with Holbein's Thomas Cromwell Salman Toor's Museum Boys with Johannes Vermeer's Officer and Laughing Girl and Toyin Ojih Odutola's The Listener with Rembrandt's Self-Portrait 45 colour illustrationsTrade Review"This work should be included in any art library. . . . The book’s grounding as not just about four Queer artists’ works, but as a larger discussion of portraiture and art history, allows this book to be helpful in a variety of classes or projects.”—Art Libraries Society of North America, (ARLIS/NA)Table of ContentsDirector's Preface Acknowledgments Foreword: Look at Us by Hanya Yanagihara Introduction: Why by Xavier F. Salomon "We Can Occupy This Space Now" by Stephen Truax Jenna Gribbon and Toyin Ojih Odutola: Color as Communique by Jessica Bell Brown Hindsight by Aimee Ng "The future eats the past, eats the future" by Russell Tovey Catalogue Jenna Gribbon's What Am I Doing Here? I Should Ask You the Same Jenna Gribbon in Conversation with Legacy Russell Doron Langberg' Lover Doron Langberg in Conversation with Jonathan Anderson Salman Toor's Museum Boys Salman Toor in Conversation with Christopher Y. Lew Toyin Ojih Odutola's The Listener Toyin Ojih Odutola in Conversation with Jason Reynolds Artist Biographies Index Image Credits
£25.46
D Giles Ltd Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo
Book SynopsisThe Three Philosophers by Giorgione (Italian, 1477 1510) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and St. Francis in the Desert by Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1424/35 1516) in The Frick Collection, New York, are two of the most celebrated paintings of the Venetian Renaissance. Between at least 1525 and 1556 the two paintings were displayed together in the same house in Venice, the palazzo of Taddeo Contarini (ca. 1466 1540), a member of one of Venice's wealthiest patrician families. For the first time in more than four hundred years, these two masterpieces will be reunited. Accompanying their display at the Frick, this book explores the origins of the paintings and re-evaluates their shared histories in the collection of Taddeo Contarini. AUTHOR: Xavier F. Salomon is the deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick Collection in New York. SELLING POINTS: . Reunites two Italian Renaissance masterpieces after more than four centuries apart, affording a re-examination of their joint history 35 colour illustrationsTable of ContentsDirector’s Foreword by Ian Wardropper; Preface and Acknowledgments; Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini; Catalogue; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; Image Credits
£21.56
D Giles Ltd Hayward Oubre
Book SynopsisA ground-breaking book devoted to the life and work of Hayward Oubre brings together important examples of Oubre's sculptures, paintings, and prints to explore his career, creative process, and legacy.
£29.71
Counter-Print Sunday Suns
Book SynopsisSunday Suns is the weekly project of American designer Tad Capenter, who has taken on the simple of task of designing, illustrating, scuplting, modelling, making, stitching or creating a sun every Sunday.
£21.25
Beam Editions Anthony Whishaw: Works on Paper
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£39.63
Beam Editions Ecology Works – John Newling
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£47.00
Beam Editions Enough Is Definitely Enough
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£25.99
Radius Books John McCracken: Works from 1963-2011
Book SynopsisJohn McCracken (1934–2011) occupies a singular position within the recent history of American art, as his work melds the restrained formal qualities of Minimalist sculpture with a distinctly West Coast sensibility expressed through colour, form and finish. He developed his early sculptural work while studying painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in the late 1950s and early 1960s. While experimenting with increasingly three-dimensional canvases, the artist began to produce objects made with industrial materials, including plywood, sprayed lacquer and pigmented resin, creating the highly reflective, smooth surfaces that he was to become known for. This catalogue charts the evolution of McCracken’s diverse oeuvre, encompassing both well-known and lesser-seen examples of the artist’s production from the early 1960s up through his death in 2011, presenting a range of sculptures, paintings and sketches.
£36.00
David Zwirner Al Taylor: Pet Stains, Puddles, and Full Gospel
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£28.00
David Zwirner Michael Riedel: Poster—Painting—Presentation
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£25.50
David Zwirner Al Taylor: Early Paintings 1971-1980
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£27.20
David Zwirner Luc Tuymans: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings
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£123.75
Editions Flammarion Monet/Rothko
Book SynopsisCyrille Sciama is director general of the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny and is head heritage curator. Marie Delbarre is a research assistant at the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny. Géraldine Lefebvre is a historian of nineteenth-century art and an independent curator. Pierre Wat is an art history professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Valérie Reis is responsible for exhibitions at the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny.
£28.00
Actes Sud Niele Toroni: Lambert Collection artbook no.4
Book Synopsis“If I had to sum up Niele Toroni in one word, without hesitation that word would be ‘loyalty’. Loyalty in friendship, for I have had the joy of sharing his artistic adventure and epicurean side for more than thirty years. And loyalty in his work, because I know no other artist who has followed the same path without ever deviating from his goal.” Yvon Lambert, Œuvres sur papier et photographies, La Collection Yvon Lambert dialogue avec des artistes contemporains, Yokohama Museum of Art, 1998 The fourth volume of the Lambert Collection art book series had to be devoted to Niele Toroni and Yvon Lambert, such is the strength of the relationship between the collector and the artist. Their relationship began back in 1970 when Toroni presented his first exhibition at the gallery, and continues through 2021, when the Lambert Collection will be exhibiting its full catalogue of the artist’s work, spotlighting two works produced in situ for the museum opening in 2000, composed of a series of paintings on paper, tracing paper, canvas, wood, and even on a school blackboard. This book of the exhibition contains gallery views as well as an interview between Niele Toroni and Yvon Lambert. For more than fifty years, Niele Toroni has been developing a subversive and radical vision of the pictorial act. As early as 1966, his method had already begun to take shape, using a brush no.50 to print repetitive brushstrokes at regular 30-cm intervals. This work was presented for the first time in 1967, beside Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset and Michel Parmentier, in the pop-up exhibition “Manifestation I” at the 18th Young Painter’s Fair at Paris’s Museum of Modern Art. The “work/painting” – as the painter calls it – consists of a reproducing a single, minimal, systematic gesture, “which is never the same”. The work/painting has no story to tell and no underlying message to convey. What matters is what you see. The works “reboot” our visual experience. Changing viewers’ perceptions is Niele Toroni’s great ambition; for him, painting means “learning to see again”.
£18.00
Editions Skira Paris Maya Ruiz-Picasso: Daughter of Pablo
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£32.00
Editions Skira Paris Thameur Mejri (Bilingual edition)
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£24.00
Editions Skira Paris Pascal Haudressy
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£29.75
Editions Skira Paris Outlooks on Modern and Contemporary Arab Artists
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£36.00
Editions Skira Paris Toma-L: Mala Bestia
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£28.90
Editions Skira Paris Abdelkebir Rabi Bilingual edition
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£28.00
Editions Skira Paris Bao Vuong Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisA2Z Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery based in Paris, specialised in Asian artists.
£24.00
Cahiers d'art Ever Goya
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£57.75
Cahiers d'art Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings
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£261.25
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Giovanni Segantini. La Vita – La Natura – La
Book SynopsisGiovanni Segantini’s (1858–99) three paintings La Vita—La Natura—La Morte (Becoming—Being—Passing) of 1898/99 do not reveal at first glance anything about their equally complex and interesting background. Originally planned for the 1900 Paris Exposition of 1900 as a gigantic, multimedia “Alpine symphony” panorama 722 ft long and 66 ft high, Segantini was forced to reduce his work to three purely pictorial main paintings, owing to a lack of financial means. When he died in 1899, whilst still working on it, he left behind an incomplete triptych that was intended to embody “the spirit of nature, of life, and of death.” In this book, Swiss art historian and Segantini-expert Juerg Albrecht traces this monumental landmark piece in the artist’s oeuvre as one of the last programmatic works of fin de siècle art. Apart from its genesis, the book explains, as well the cycle of life and death that the three paintings visualise, whose origins Segantini sought both privately and creatively in the mountains of the upper Engadine valley during his lifetime. Text in English and German.
£31.50
De Gruyter Inszeniert und instrumentalisiert:
Book SynopsisThe Tower of Blue Horses by Franz Marc, confiscated as "degenerate" and missing since then, Emil Nolde’s "Unpainted Pictures" from the time of his occupational ban, or Ernst Barlach’s dismantled, partly destroyed memorials constitute works by three key representatives of Expressionism now inscribed in German cultural history as symbols of the National Socialist persecution of art. The art of Barlach, Marc and Nolde, however, was not only defamed in the most vehement manner, but also celebrated, protected or rehabilitated as "German". In her well-sourced insight into museum, exhibition and publication practices between 1933 and 1945, Isgard Kracht exposes the mechanisms and myths of Nazi art policy, and so retells the story of Expressionism’s veneration and ostracism during the "Third Reich". Fundamental contribution to an understanding of National Socialist art policy New Perspectives on the History of veneration and ostracism of Expressionist art during the "Third Reich"
£999.99
De Gruyter Die Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 1773–2023:
Book SynopsisFounded in 1773, Düsseldorf Art Academy is one of the most important institutions of its kind in the world. During its 250-year history, many internationally significant artists have trained here, and some have returned to the institution as professors during their careers. This volume, published for the anniversary, offers a first overview of the various art movements that originated here or were closely linked to the institute, and introduces the artists who shaped it. The contributions, based on the latest research, focus e.g., on the 19th-century Düsseldorf School of Painting, while others deal with Joseph Beuys and his work at the Academy or take a look at the Becher School and the tradition of photography at the Academy. Opulently illustrated volume on the 250th anniversary of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Art historical overview of the traditional and influential institution Look inside
£37.80
Deutscher Kunstverlag Der amputierte Herrscher
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